Officers are looking for Cynthia Findley, who's accused of taking the baby.

Officers are looking for Cynthia Findley, who's accused of taking the baby.

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Woodlands woman sought in Okla. baby's abduction

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A resident of The Woodlands is one of two women being sought by authorities in the abduction of an Oklahoma baby.

An Amber Alert was issued Thursday afternoon for 5-month-old Olivia Smith, who was reported missing from her grandparents' home near Cashion, Oklahoma, around noon. She is believed to be traveling in a brown 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe with Texas plates BYZ3364, said Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, Undersheriff Bryon Blankenship said.

The child, who was wearing a white, gray and pink long-sleeved onesie, is believed to be with Cynthia A. Findley - a 48-year-old Woodlands woman also known as Cindy Findley - and Jennifer Skousen, a 43-year-old Utah woman who lives near Salt Lake City.

"They did come into the home uninvited and take the child without giving knowledge of where they were taking the child," the undersheriff said. "Right now, we want to determine what the motive was and why they would do something like that."

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Blankenship said the women are sisters. Both have relatives in Oklahoma, public records show.

The rural farming area where the baby lived is about 15 miles north of Oklahoma City.

Findley and Skousen have a brother who is the baby's step-grandfather (because he is the stepfather of the child's mother), Blankenship said. That man was among the child's caretakers.

Despite at least one media interview in which Findley's daughter insisted that her mother did not abduct the child, Blankenship said the women have not reached out to police.

"Honestly, that's why we want to talk to them," the undersheriff said. "If there was some misunderstanding, you'd think they would have pulled over and called us."

The Amber Alert is a national system between law enforcement, broadcasters, transportation agencies and the wireless industry to activate urgent bulletins in the most serious child abduction cases. The goal is to instantly galvanize communities to assist in child searches and increase safe recoveries.